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ist und welche seit Anfang April d. J. in meinem Aquarium leben, 
kriechen dann emsig im Sande hin, während sie vorher unbeweglich 
unter dem Sande gelegen hatten. 
Es ist nicht unwahrscheinlich, dafi meinem oben beschriebenen 
Verfahren der Reiz der Neuheit mangelt. Dem sei wie ihm wolle; 
immerhin wird vielleicht durch Darlegung desselben diesem oder jenem 
Freunde der Natur in etwas gedient werden. Wenn das der Fall, so 
ist der Zweck dieser Zeilen erreicht. 
Bremen, den 4. November 1883. 
2. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 
26th Sept., 1883. — 1) On a very dolichocephalic skull of an Australian 
aboriginal. By Baron N. de Miklucho Maclay. — The cephalic index of this 
skull, which was found in the interior of Queensland, was only 58,9, calcula- 
ted on the ophrio-occipital length, and 58,3, calculated by the glabello-occipi- 
tal length, an index lower probably than that of any skull hitherto described. 
The skull was not a deformed one in the ordinary sense, but was a fair example 
oft he so-called roof-shaped type of cranium. — 2) On a fossil humerus. By 
Mr. C.W.De Vis. The humerus which Owen described as belonging to 
Nototherium, is regarded by Mr. De Vis, as being too nearly related in the 
arrangement of its muscular ridges to the fossorial humerus of Phascolmys, 
to be referable to the former genus; and he puts forward the suggestion that 
a humerus recently obtained from the Darling Downs, is the true arm-bone 
of Nototherium. — 3) Notices of some undescribed species of Coleoptera 
from the Brisbane Museum. By William Macleay, F.L.S., etc. The spe- 
cies described are a few unnamed Coleoptera occurring in a large collection 
sent by Mr. De Vis to the author for identification. Their names are: — 
Pamborus viridiaureus, Catascopus laticollis, Eutoma ponctipenne, Carenum terrae- 
reginae, C. ianthinum, C. De Visu, C. pusillum, Tibarisus robustus, Poecilus 
laevis, Diphucephala hirtipennis, D. coerulea, D. latipennis, and Liparetrus 
convexiusculus. — Baron Maclay exhibited a sketch of a new species of He- 
terodontus, recently received at the Australian Museum from Japan, and 
pointed out the marked differences between it and Heterodontus Philippi, the 
species with which the Japan Fish had hitherto been confounded. He sug- 
gested for it the specific name of japonicus, and said that he would give a 
detailed description of it at the next meeting of the Society, — Mr. Macleay 
exhibited in illustration of Mr. De Vis’s Paper, casts of a gigantic humerus, 
of a Diprotodon, and a smaller humerus, probably of Nototherium. The 
fossils were both from Darling Downs. — Mr. Thomas Whitelegge exhi- 
bited under the microscope a living specimen of the species of Fredericella, 
one of the fresh water Bryozoa which had not previously been noticed in 
New South Wales. It appeared to be identical with the European Y. sultana, 
of Blumenbach. — Mr. Whittell exhibited specimens of a caterpillar of 
the family Cossidae found at Mount Wingen, in which the original tissues of 
the animal had become replaced by the mycelium of a species of Sphaeria. — 
Mr. Littlejohn exhibited a large specimen of Gastrotokeus biaculeatus from 
Torres Straits. — Dr. Cox also exhibited a remarkable blenny of the genus 
Cristiceps from Broken Bay. 
